Hidden inside clikes is one standout: sickle, a six-letter play worth 12 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
CLIKES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to SICKLE (verb), to cut with an agricultural implement having a single blade, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
sickle is the highest-scoring word from clikes, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling clikes produces exactly one six-letter word: sickle. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clikes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with licks, likes, and slice. For points, the strongest plays are licks and slick — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in clikes produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, lice and lick. For points, the strongest plays are icks, lick, and sick — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling clikes turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, lie, and ski. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
14 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in clikes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in clikes and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sickle, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from clikes earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in clikes produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.